Plumas County Biographies
Asa Kinney
Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Dec. 2004
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The first man who had the honor of representing Plumas county in the assembly,
after her organization, was Asa Kinney. He came over the plains in the summer of
1853 from the state of Wisconsin, leaving his property there much involved. He
settled in Plumas, and followed mining on Poorman�s creek, from which locality
he emerged and appeared in the democratic convention of 1854, receiving the
nomination for assemblyman. He was elected, and went to the state capital in the
fall of 1854. He was a candidate for speaker of the assembly, and came within
two votes of getting it. He was a live representative and an able man. He left
the assembly and went directly to Wisconsin, without returning to Plumas, and
still resides in the Badger state.
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from
1513 to 1850. � Fariss and Smith, San Francisco, 1882. p 196